“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”

“Wait for MeWait for me, and I'll returnOnly wait very hardWait when you are filled with sorrow...Wait in the sweltering heatWait when the others have stopped waiting,Forgetting their yesterdays.Wait even when from afar no letters come to youWait even when others are tired of waiting...And when friends sit around the fire,Drinking to my memory,Wait, and do not hurry to drink to my memory too.Wait. For I'll return,defying every death.And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky.They will never understand that in the midst of death,You with you waiting saved me.Only you and I know how I survived.It's because you waited, as no one else did.”

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

“You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.”

“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”

“You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.”